SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | The Big Picture |
| Discussion Leader: Andrew Hrymak (McMaster Univ.) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Costas Gogos (PPI NJIT)
Elements of polymer processing |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | William Oberkampf (Sandia National Laboratories)
The method of exact solutions and verification of CAE codes |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | First Steps: Plastication and Blends |
| Discussion Leader: Charles Tucker (Univ. Illinois) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Michael Thompson (McMaster Univ.)
The discrete element method (DEM) and its application in polymer processing |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:15 am | Photo |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Miroslav Grmela (École Polytechnique de Montreal)
Multiscale modeling of rheology and processing of immiscible polymer blends |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Patrick Anderson (Technical Univ. Eindhoven)
Modeling the morphology and rheology of polymer blends using the boundary element method |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Nanocomposites |
| Discussion Leader: Sadhan Jana (Univ. Akron) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Emmanuel Gianellis (Cornell Univ.)
Nanocomposites - To intercalate or exfoliate? |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Kalman Migler (NIST)
Rheology, conductivity and processing of carbon nanotube polymer composites |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Crystallization |
| Discussion Leader: Julie Kornfield (CalTech) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Miko Cakmak (Univ. Akron)
Towards a quantitative description of stress Induced crystallization: Coupled large deformation true mechano-optical behavior in unidirectional and biaxial stretching of polymers |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Nino Grizzuti (Univ. Napoli)
Crystallization and rheology - What really causes crystallization? |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Gerhard Eder (Johannes Kepler Univ.)
Crystallization of polymers after extensional deformation |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Micro-molding and Confined Flows |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Foss (GM R&D) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Volker Piotter (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GMBH)
Micromolding of thermoplastics and powders - A challenge for simulation |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Mike Graham (Univ. Wisconsin)
Confinement and boundary effects in flowing polymer solutions |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Industrial Strength CAE |
| Discussion Leader: Vito Leo (Solvay) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Antonios Doufas (Dow Chemical Company)
Simulation of Polymer Processing at Dow |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Stefan Glaser (BASF Aktiengesellschaft)
Integrative crash simulation of composite structures - the importance of process induced material data |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Michel Vincent (École des Mines, CEMEF)
Calculation of residual stresses during calibration of polyethylene extruded tubes: which viscoelastic behavior from liquid to solid state? |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Prediction of Properties |
| Discussion Leader: Rong Zheng (Moldflow Corp.) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Musa Kamal (McGill Univ.)
Applications of product- and microstructure-oriented simulation in polymer processing |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Han Meijer (Technical Univ. Eindhoven)
Prediction of mechanical properties after processing |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Thermal Properties, Instabilities and Solidification |
| Discussion Leader: Mort Denn (City Univ. New York) |
9:00 am - 10:00 am | Jay Schieber (Illinois Inst. Technology)
Anisotropic thermal conduction in shear flows of a polymer melt |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:30 am | Bamin Khomami (Washington Univ.)
Thermoelastic and thermomechanical instabilities in curvilinear flows |
11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Roger Tanner (Univ. Sydney)
Non-isothermal constitutive models for semi-crystalline materials - How do we model solidification? |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New Techniques for CAE |
| Discussion Leader: Frank Baaijens (Technical Univ. Eindhoven) |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Francisco Chinestra (ENSAM Paris)
Meshless methods and model reduction: A powerful approach for simulating complex fluids |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Martien Hulsen (Technical Univ. Eindhoven)
Viscoelasticity in polymer processing - The end of the high Weissenberg number problem? |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |